Jeremiah 34:8

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Summary

This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

Had

To proclaim

Isaiah 61:1

Bible References

Had

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord’s people, also between the king and the people.

The king went up to the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, both small and great; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.

They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord’s people.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.

The king went up to the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites and all the people, from the greatest to the least; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.

“Now because of all this

We are making an agreement in writing;

And on the sealed document are the names of our leaders, our Levites and our priests.”

Now on the sealed document were the names of: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

To proclaim

“At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.

“If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment.

“You shall sow your land for six years and gather in its yield,

You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

“If your kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him free.

Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
Because the Lord has anointed me
To bring good news to the

afflicted;

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to captives
And freedom to prisoners;